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Each Arabic speaking country or region also has its own variety of colloquial spoken Arabic. These colloquial varieties of Arabic appear in written form in some poetry, cartoons and comics, plays and personal letters. There are also translations of the Bible into most varieties of colloquial Arabic. Arabic has also been written with the Hebrew ...
Today Biblical Aramaic, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects and the Aramaic language of the Talmud are written in the Hebrew alphabet, while the Syriac alphabet is used to write Syriac and Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects, and the Mandaic alphabet is used for Mandaic.
This is not an exhaustive list of all the languages written with each writing system, but mainly the ones that appear on Omniglot. The most widely used writing systems are the Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic alphabets.
A brief introdution to the Arabic language, and which discusses some of the challenges of learning it.
After the Islamic conquest of the Persian Sassanian Empire in the 7th and 8th centuries AD, the Arabic alphabet was adapted to write the Persian language. This is now known as the Persian or Perso-Arabic alphabet ( الفبای فارسی / alefbā-ye fârsi).
Arabic and Persian loanwords were replaced with Turkish equivalents, based on the vocabulary used by ordinary people rather than the elite. Nowadays, only scholars and those who learnt to read before 1928 can read Turkish written in the Ottoman Turkish script.
How to count in Modern Standard Arabic (اللغة العربية الفصحى), the universal language of the Arabic-speaking world. Note : numerals in Arabic are written from left to right, while letters are written from right to left.
Egyptian Arabic is perhaps the most widely understood variety of Arabic, thanks to the popularity of Egyptian-made films and TV shows Arabic was brought to Egypt by the Muslim conquest of 7th century AD.
Dari is written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script. Dari alphabet and pronunciation ( الفباى دري ) ح (he) is also known as ی جیمی (ye-jimi), and ﻩ (he) is also known as ی دوچش (ye-docešma)
When Islam arrived in southeast Asia during the 14th century, the Arabic script was adapted to write the Malay language. In the 17th century, under influence from the Dutch and British, the Arabic script was replaced by the Latin alphabet.